Kenya Pipeline Company
Realising a VisionWriter: Matthew StaffProject Manager: Eddie Clinton The past 12 months has represented a key period within Kenya Pipeline Company’s (KPC) long and esteemed history, comprising a series of industry challenges and internal goals being juggled in order to achieve relative success.With around 30 years of experience in overseeing all of the country’s major oil & gas construction projects, the pivotal energy sector operator is in a unique position of being 100 percent state-owned while still funding its own existence via the projects it undertakes; and with an industry very much in limbo on an international scale, yet a corporate strategy determined to transform and improve, the 2015-2016 chapter of the KPC story has been one of the Company’s most significant.“2015-16 was a year of many successes and challenges for KPC,” affirms the Company’s Managing Director, Joe Sang. “From a strategy perspective, we finalised and started by implementing our 10-year Corporate Strategic Plan, dubbed Vision 2025, which envisages our turnover growing to KES 150 billion and pre-tax profit to KES 80 billion by 2025.“Financially, our 2015-16 accounts are currently being audited, but we are confident we met our targets.”Completing the Sinendet-Kisumu pipeline and the leasing of the Petrocity Oil Depot in Konza over that time period, as well as advancing substantially on the landmark Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline project has ensured a natural continuation of its core objectives; and have been compounded also by a general broadening of the organisation via a more refined human resource and remuneration strategy, heightened shareholder engagement procedures, and perhaps most importantly, a more extensive…
Kenya Pipeline Company
International Expansion in the PipelineWriter: Matthew StaffProject Manager: Eddie Clinton Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has set lofty ambitions for its future prominence in both the country and wider region, as a rebranding and fresh vision sets its stall to become one of the first state-owned Kenyan organisation to operate on an international scale.Formed by the Government of Kenya in 1973, the 100 percent state-owned corporation has a rare double-faceted organisational structure in that it also funds itself, making it one of the most pivotal business arms in the country’s energy sector.Subsequently, KPC has been involved in all major oil & gas pipeline constructions since 1978, upon the completion of the still-significant Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline, linking the country’s two biggest cities.For the duration of this tenure, and throughout all projects completed since that opening gambit, the mandate has simply comprised two facets; to transport petroleum products and to offer operational storage of products, both internal and imported.While the success in adhering to these mandates is undoubted, this isn’t to say that KPC is the finished article, however, and the Company has now put stringent policies and ambitions in place, in order to not only produce more innovative and larger-scale pipelines, but to do so across a broadened geographic footprint, using more efficient techniques and systems, and with a stronger commitment to the wider population at large engrained into its philosophy.Serving the regionSignificant upgrades to nationally significant pipelines, a complete rebranding under the banner ‘Vision 2025’ and a more concerted focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives all fall under this vision…
